Tea Time

So it's that great American holiday today, Tax Day! And with it this year comes conservative protests, gatherings of people who literally have no idea why they're protesting.

Honestly, the funniest thing about today so far hasn't really been the crazy signs (there have been a lot of really "good" ones), but the people simply asking the protesters exactly what message they're trying to put out. A lot of them ramble about socialism and how "their children's futures" are being stolen from them. They seem to vaguely know it's about taxation, but when asked about specifics they come up short. I think this is mainly due to the fact that this "grassroots" movement is anything but.

Some other highlights of the coverage today was a bullhorn-touting leader asking if the crowd really believed that Obama was lowering taxes on the majority of tax-paying Americans, to which they replied with an emphatic "NO!!!" I suppose I shouldn't have expected facts to interfere with such things. Myths like this and the "a majority of Americans pay no taxes" are really boggling to me.

Oh, by the way, it's been less than a hundred days since Obama took office, and Texas apparently wants to secede already. Also, Crooks and Liars has some great stuff today, see this. Seriously. Click it. It's incredible.

Finally, somebody threw a box of tea bags over the fence and onto the White House lawn. It's currently in lockdown mode.

OBJECTIVISTS Fffffffffffffffffffff

EDIT: Oh my god. David Schuster, you are the best person forever.